AREAS AND LINES OF RESEARCH
AREA OF LITERARY STUDIES
LINE OF RESEARCH 1. Poetics of Modernity and Contemporaneity.
Description: The study of the poetics of modernity and contemporaneity in their various manifestations and multiple configurations.
LINE OF RESEARCH 2. Compared Literature and Cultural Studies.
Description: Theoretical study of the literary manifestations in an intertextual, intercultural and intersemiotic perspective, and of the relationship identity/alterity and their representations.
LINE OF RESEARCH 3. Literature, history, and society.
Description: Study of the articulations between literature, living experience, and social organization.
AREA OF LINGUISTIC STUDIES
LINE OF RESEARCH 4. Form and functioning of natural languages, with an emphasis in Portuguese, Indigenous Languages, and Sign Language.
Description: Documenting, description, typological analysis, acquisition and processing of natural languages with na emphasis in Indigenous Languages, Sign Language, and Portuguese, from different theoretical-methodological perspectives.
LINE OF RESEARCH 5. Language, society and culture.
Description: The study of linguistic phenomena in relation to the socio-cultural and intercultural aspects of different linguistic communities.
LINE OF RESEARCH 6. Teaching and learning of second languages and foreign languages.
Description: Theories, methods, and teaching and learning approaches of languages, teacher education, identity and cultural questions, in teaching-learning contexts of second languages and foreign languages.
LINE OF RESEARCH 7. Teaching and learning of natural languages with an emphasis in Portuguese, Indigenous Languages, and Sign Language.
Description: Relations language, text, discourse in teaching, teacher education, cultural and identity questions, in teaching-learning contexts of natural languages.
LINE OF RESEARCH 8. Language, text, and discourse.
Description: Constitution of the relationship language/history/individual. Theories of text and discourse. Linguistic Historiography. The workings of enunciations in their relationship with several discourses present in society.